Japan’s Naomi Osaka made a spectacular entrance at Wimbledon on Monday as she arrived on court in a kimono-inspired dress. Osaka has become known for wearing flamboyant outfits before starting her matches and the four-time Grand Slam champion’s Wimbledon costume was eagerly-awaited. With fans and photographers crowded around Court Three prior to her Wimbledon first-round match against France’s Elsa Jacquemot, Osaka didn’t disappoint. To match the All England Club’s strict all-white dress code, the 28-year-old wore a kimono-style ceremonial dress decorated with embroidered cranes and cherry blossom. She paired the white outfit with a traditional kanzashi hair ornament featuring white flowers before removing both to reveal a white Nike dress.

While much more conventional, the dress is inspired by kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting.

Osaka has worked with a range of fashion designers on her outfits, going for a jellyfish-modelled look at the Australian Open dedicated to her daughter Shai and a gold dress inspired by the Eiffel Tower at the French Open.

For Wimbledon, the former world number one collaborated with Japanese designer Hana Yagi, posting a video accompanied by the caption: “Culture”.

Osaka revealed she had the idea for the outfit after watching the Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill.

“I think about my cultures, my heritage, which is Japanese and Haitian. Then if I dive deeper into like Japanese culture, I think about the most iconic silhouette, which for me is a kimono,” she said.